David Ossman: 4 books
by David Ossman
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Author David Ossman has been contributing to popular culture since he chronicled Beat-era poets on his New York radio show, The Sullen Art, in 1960. He became a Boomer-era icon on The Firesign Theatre's classic albums, Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him and as Porgie Tirebiter on...
by David Ossman
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
THE RONALD REAGAN MURDER CASE is a 60,000-word comedy mystery novel, set in Hollywood in January 1945, which introduces George Tirebiter, then a 25 year-old radio star, in his first "celebrity detective" role. Two murder mysteries engage George in this novel.In one, he discovers that the apparent...
by David Ossman
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
Blue Venusians from outer space are watching Los Angeles in August 1953, where a sensational murder trial and Flying Saucer Convention compete with smog and a round black and white tv screen to distract George Tirebiter from completing his screenplay. A famous 1940 radio star now reduced to pounding...
by David Ossman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
David Ossman’s memoir of The Firesign Theatre’s rapid response to the on-coming Reagan Era recounts the quartet’s uneasy transformation from writer-performer-producers of in-studio comic audio masterpieces to theatrical hopefuls and Movieland script-writers. Firesign goes Hollywood with a million...